Sounds like a letter that would be written by any young soldier who had been given (and had earned) the opportunity to meet the President. It reminds me a lot of the reactions of a man in my unit in Vietnam who was called out under similar mysterious circumstances to attend a Bob Hope Show. Somebody...was it Kendall?...said that people in the military have always hated their leaders. I guess he was in a different military than I was, but in 27 years, active and reserve, I can't honestly say that I ever hated anyone, even when they were shooting at me. I still dislike Bush, what he stands for, and most of what he has done, but that doesn't mean that the office of the President doesn't deserve respect.